October 5/6/7

October 5/6/7

Sat, Oct. 6 | 1:00 pm | 90 minutes

Jill Lepore Talks: American History from Beginning to End

Politics and Nonfiction

Photograph by Shuran Huang

Jill Lepore, a staff writer, has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2005. Her books include “The Name of War,” which won the Bancroft Prize; “New York Burning,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history; “The Story of America,” which was short-listed for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay; “Book of Ages,” a finalist for the National Book Award; “The Secret History of Wonder Woman”; and “Joe Gould’s Teeth.” Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. Her new book, “These Truths: A History of the United States,” will be published this month.